But I do understand he’s part of mine.Ĭivil rights activist Audre Lorde said: It is not our differences that divide us, it is our inability to recognize, accept and celebrate those differences. I am not always comfortable when a man tells me he’s gay. I never understood how they felt comfortable laying claim to both sides of that argument. So many of the same people who used to make that argument, and many who still do, are the same peolple who say government should stay out of our lives but then want government in our bedrooms. Because we weren’t comfortable with that either. It wasn’t that long ago we were told that black players couldn’t play in our games, because it would be uncomfortable.Īnd even when they finally could, it took several more years before a black man played quarterback. You love another man – well now you’ve gone too far. Players accused of rape and pay the woman to go away, you lie to the police trying to cover up a murder – we’re comfortable with that. Players caught in hotel rooms with illegal drugs and prostitutes – we know they’re welcome. You kill people while driving drunk – that guy is welcome. You beat a women and drag her down a flight of stairs pulling her hair out be the roots – you’re the fourth guy taken in the NFL draft. ”It will be uncomfortable, because that’s a man’s world.” Several NFL officials telling Sports Illustrated it WILL hurt him on draft day because a gay player wouldn’t be welcome in a NFL locker room. Michael Sam would be the first openly gay player in the NFL says he knows there will be problems and they’ve already started. The best defensive player in college football’s best conference only a third to fifth round NFL pick? Really? That IS chocking. ”… and then yesterday Missouri’s All American defensive Michael Sam, the SCC:s Defensive Player of the Year and expected to be a third to fifth round pick in the NFL draft, tells the world he’s gay. Notera hur han använder bilder som väcker känslor, citat som han sedan parafraserar och till sist avslutar med en väl underbyggd uppmaning. Lyssna noga på hur Dale Hansen bygger sin argumentation kring varför det är helt fel att räkna bort Sam i den närliggande draften. Amerikanarna kan sin retorik.įöljande är ett slags försvarstal som stödjer Michael Sam, USA:s första öppet homosexuella fotbollsspelare i NFL. Ser den korta tv-snutten och överväldigas av det perfekt uppbyggda talet. "Well, hell," he says, "I couldn't take off the entire month.Springer på detta underbara nyhetsklipp i mitt flöde. He'll return to Channel 8 on Tuesday, June 30. Hansen may have lost some hair, some interest and some edge. I want to be on the set until the doctor drags me out kicking and screaming." I know we've all been overpaid for a long time. "People say I'm arrogant but in all honesty, I'm a grounded guy. seems a more likely casualty of personal downsizing. His radio show - Monday through Friday 6-7 p.m. He says at that time he'll have no problem taking a pay cut in a media environment suddenly, and perhaps eternally, void of lucrative contracts. Hansen's TV contract runs through January 2013, when he'll turn 65. I still love sports but - I hate to say this out loud - the games bore me. "I'm getting beat on the river card and my golf game sucks, but I laugh all the time. "I'm not buying that I'm depressed for a minute," Hansen says. Though he says he's not depressed, time has dulled his zest. And he works 120 nights a year at ESPN Radio. He works Sunday nights during football season. But, believe it or not, he's one of the hardest working people in the biz.ĭespite skipping June, by the end of the year Hansen will work 13 more days than anyone named Campos, McCaa or Delkus. We (right, Channel 8 weatherman Pete Delkus?) kid Hansen about his casually flexible schedule. I'm taking a vacation with absolutely no plan. "Now I'm going to do something I never done in my life. "But when I got home I was so tired I couldn't walk," he said. Hansen, who was actually only off 2 1/2 weeks in April, has already tripped to Washington D.C. It's nothing, he hopes, an unscripted vacation can't cure. "I'm not burned out," he told me yesterday, "but I can see it from here." He'll be back on TV at the end of the month, but I'd be surprised if he keeps his radio gig at 103.3 FM ESPN through the summer. Points out that he's been dragging lately with a generally shitty attitude. Says his doctor is trying to treat him for depression. Hansen, who's been doing sports in this market (29 years) longer than some of you have been alive, admits to being bored. We all know Dale plays golf and poker and hookie with the best of them - seems like he was off all of April, too - but yesterday I called just to make sure everything is okay. When I heard Channel 8 sports anchor Dale Hansen was taking off the entire month of June, I was jealous.
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